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This is not a joke book or a parody. This is a warmly written, humorous, and quite serious cookbook filled with delightful traditional and unusual recipes. It includes wonderful photographs by the author of people and places and food all connected to his fondness and memory of growing up in rural and small town Mississippi. You may not be tempted to try every single recipe in this book, but you won't be able to resist trying many of them!
Customer Reviews:
Superb Regional Cookbook.......2005-10-11
I must confess that I resisted buying this cookbook for many years. I am an avid collector of American Regional and International cookbooks, but found the title of this book offensive. I assumed it was written to mock rural whites, a people I know to be hardworking, self-reliant, and decent. I was wrong about this one. This book actually celebrates these people and their cuisine, and is one of the very best traditional American cookbooks in print. Great recipes for fried chicken, catfish, hushpuppies, collard greens, Hoppin John, cornbread, and biscuits, as well as rabbit, squirrel, and yes, even possum. The book has a folksy humor throughout, and the recipes are authentic. Books like this become even more precious as this and other American regional cuisines disappear under a blanket of bland corporate burger chains, sub shops, and pizza joints. Incidentally, several recent medical studies have shown that rural Appalachians who consume this traditional fare are far healthier than those who embrace the modern suburban diet of chain restaurant food! If you have any interest in traditional American cooking, this book is a must-own.
Redneck cooking at it's best.......2005-09-12
Don't let the title fool you, the recipes are good and the pictures are great. If you've ever lived in the deep south for any length of time , this cook book is a treasure.
Recipe for roast possum.......2005-09-03
Everyone needs a recipe for roast possum. White Trash Cooking has one and the book is dead serious. I had a lot of fun and laughs with this book
Rick Black's Trailer Trash Cookin' is by far a better book! .......2005-01-21
Us folks in the court know our vittles and Rick Black and his Trailer Trash Cookbook knows how to "GET ER DONE" Sorry but Earnies book is Jeff Foxworthy's jokes with recipes.
Writin' and eatin'...Mickler's a pro.......2004-03-20
If you like community cookbooks, you'll love the White Trash Cookbooks. These are not only collections of yummies but also loving tributes to generations of cooks who worked with what they had. Don't bother with these books if "Cheez Whiz" makes you wince. Keep an open mind and an open heart and you'll be richly rewarded.
Book Description
Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash. As The Redneck Manifesto boldly points out and brilliantly demonstrates, America's dirty little secret isn't racism but classism. While pouncing incessantly on racial themes, most major media are silent about America's widening class rifts, a problem that negatively affects more people of all colors than does racism. With an unmatched ability for rubbing salt in cultural wounds, Jim Goad deftly dismantles most popular American notions about race and culture and takes a sledgehammer to our delicate glass-blown popular conceptions of government, religion, media, and history.
Customer Reviews:
nice piece of middle-brow philosophy.......2007-03-30
If you've never sat through a college Sociology course or aren't a political junkie, The Redneck Manifesto will be a true revelation. Although I lean a little to the right and shy away from propaganda, Jim Goad had me wanting to grap a pitchfork and run down to City Hall to settle the score.
On the negative side, Goad over-sells every theory with example after example supporting his point of view. In many chapters I read the first 3 pages and skipped the next 20 because I'd already bought what he was selling.
Not really a manifesto, but still excellent!.......2007-02-22
While the title would seem to imply that this book is some kind of call to arms for poor white people, it is actually less a manifesto than a history lesson combined with Goad's own unique take on life in America. It lays out a version of American history that does not deny the validity of statements about our "racist past" but certainly makes the case that most whites who ended up in the New World had it pretty rough. He explains the virtually ignored topic of white slavery, the development of the word "redneck", and the utter contempt and bias the modern mainstream media has towards those unfortunate enough to be labeled as such. Alongside the history lesson Goad provides some insight into his views on religion, politics, and war, which are then usually tied into the book's redneck theme.
I found this book to be facinating and despite what some reviewers may think, largely correct in the conclusions it draws about the forbidden topic of anti-white racism in America. Goad even lists his sources so those who doubt the veracity of his claims can do their own research. I do agree somewhat with the reviewer who said that Goad's jokes grew tiring, but I think so mostly because the other material in this book is so important and interesting, not because I think Goad is a "pseudo-reformed urban liberal". Even if this were published as a pamphlet it would stil be worth purchasing. Goad's style may not be for everyone but on the whole this book deals with the topic in a serious though not pedantic manner. It is not intended for self-hating suburban whites, which is unfortunate since they are the people who need to read it the most!
If you can't laugh at this you might as well be dead or French, .......2007-01-26
Most reviewers have missed the most important dimension of this book: Jim Goad is an American prose stylist on parallel with H.L. Mencken, Florence King, and Mark Twain. What most have taken as a war cry is more properly viewed as wit.
This book is filled with hilarious metaphors, transitions, over-the-top prose and verbal darts. Those who have an ideological bone to pick with Goad, or wish to engage in rebuttal had first better check the mirror for where their self-importance and moral superiority meters are set. For Goad, arguing from below with the tools of pugnacious roustabout and the rhetorical and argumentative skills of a St. Aquinas will deploy his first haymaker quite easily: he's going to make you laugh very hard.
An uproarious Rabelaisian wonder of a book. A joy, a pleasure, a belly laugh, a bacchanal, a celebration, a hootenanny, a liberation, a nouvelle monde, a birth, a breakthrough, a backslap, a war whoop, a whimsy, a watershed, a wonder, a discovery, a delight, a treasure, a classic. Jim Goad's The REDNECK MANIFESTO: HOW HILLBILLIES HICKS AND WHITE TRASH BECAME AMERICAS SCAPEGOATS is as American as white lightening and as welcome as liberty and as classic as Menken's "The American Language." A significant and delightful contribution to American prose.
Get it today.
Read at your own Risk... .......2006-08-31
Finally a book on American history and sociology for which you don't need a box of NoDoz! Goad's writing, ranging from colorful to flat out vulgar, is nonetheless very insightful and informative. I would NOT recommend this book to the closed-minded, politially correct, or easily offended. For the rest of us, however, Goad will surely give you a reason to laugh out loud! Goad's rant on racism and the history of social order is hightly descriptive as he depicts a nation of "white trash" whose leisurely activity "manifests a need to FEEL something apart from a working life in which you're treated with all the warmth of a Plasticine toy robot." I was blown away by the historical stories and statistics of white slavery, submission, and opression. Goad reminds us that "White niggers have feelings too!" Ultimately, this book will truly prompt you to rethink your roots, whether they are white, black, hispanic, green, or purlple!
the pointless rant of a phony redneck.......2006-07-08
Jim Goad is a phony.
He isn't a southerner, and he is obviously clueless as to what a "redneck" is. That term comes from the Ulster Scots, the single largest ethnic group in America. Finding out about the Scots-Irish would have been the first thing this poser would have done, if he actually cared about the things he is writing about in this book. But defending rednecks and white trash from "scapegoating" isn't his real agenda.
No, Goad is nothing but a typical pseudo-reformed urban liberal. This book is just a pointless rant from a guy who doesn't really believe in anything. He's trying to be shocking and ironic by stating (some of) the obvious while showing off his ability to make juvenile and scatalogical jokes every other line (the book would be a third the length without all the overworked humor it contains, but then it would just be a pamphlet and would have never been published).
His kind is a dime a dozen these days. I wouldn't call Goad an Ann Coulter wannabe, but that's the general neighborhood he inhabits. Show this guy and his ilk some REAL political incorrectness, and they will whimper, put their tails between their legs and hide behind the couch. They're simply not serious people. They're just playing at being writers and thinkers and curmudgeons and misanthropes because they think it's cool.
Goad's true nature was made quite evident by the book that followed this one, a truly rancid piece of self-justification that has even less of a point than this book.
Don't waste your time with Goad. Read James Webb's great book "Born Fighting" instead; it's a real history of real rednecks, by a serious author.
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"How bad could it be?" With this simple question, Joe Queenan embarks on a nightmare journey through the depths of American pop culture, subjecting himself to Broadway musicals, Red Lobster Captains' Feasts, and John Tesh concerts: "With his shopworn, lounge-lizard stage gestures, eviscerated salsa compositions, and studied reveries, Tesh was a human Cuisinart of every hack musical stunt, effecting a strange synthesis of various mongrel styles where half the songs sounded like generic background music for promotional videos ... and the other half sounded like retreads of Mason Williams's sixties hit Classical Gas."
Queenan sets out to find music, movies, books, and TV that transcend awful, and the most remarkable thing about this book is that one never doubts for a moment that he actually subjected himself to all of the horrors he describes (including the literary efforts of Joan Collins). In an era where references to Burt Reynolds movies are used as hipster currency by people who have never endured Cannonball Run II, Queenan mocks nothing without experiencing it first. His odyssey throws up a few surprises--including the discovery that Barry Manilow is actually pretty good, and that most of the junk that clogs the arteries of popular culture never reaches the stratospheric level of badness achieved by someone like Michael Bolton. This leads Queenan to coin the term scheissenbedauern ("shit regret") to describe "the disappointment one feels when exposed to something that is not nearly as bad as one hoped it would be."
But generally, the answer to the question posed at the beginning of the book is "Really, really bad." Making fun of bad middlebrow entertainment may seem like a no-brainer, but when a writer as sharp as Queenan gets his claws into something like the collected works of Billy Joel, the results are hilarious. Like Jonathan Swift with a remote control, he gleefully shoots every fish in the pop-culture barrel. --Simon Leake
Book Description
A riotously funny, razor-sharp indictment of Americas cultural wasteland by one of its most merciless critics. This wonderfully comic diatribe (Publishers Weekly) is Joe Queenans account of his year-long sojourn into North Americas pop-cultural Hot Zone, where he finds things are pretty much as bad as they seem (and as awful as he hoped). Joe Queenan descends on our cultural detritus like an angry cormorant. And I mean that in the best way. Bill Maher, Host of Politically Incorrect
Customer Reviews:
A Critic Spoofing Himself Spoofing What He Spoofs.......2007-06-29
Joe Queenan is a professional critic, and has similar tastes of many other professional critics; highbrow. This book chronicles is climbing down from his pedestal and trying to find out what makes people like such "lowbrow" items such as Red Lobster, John Tesh, Yanni, Cats and a host of other things.
While down with us peons, Mr. Queenan discovers there is a lot to like about modern culture and that he has never taken the time to look. Throughout the book he discovers various places, Las Vegas included, that attract him to want more. He only snaps out of his downward spiral when he goes to Branson, Missouri.
This book is laugh out load funny and full of fantastic insults. I only wish I could write and compose quips of half the level of Mr. Queenan. In addition, many readers have missed the finer points of the book, in which he not only lampoons himself, but also the items he is discovering. For instance, when discussing books written by Joan Collins, he turns his writing into the style used by Joan Collins.
This is an absolutely brilliant book that can be read on many levels. It is sure to insult some, but if you have a sense of humor you will find it funny. Lighten up, read it and enjoy!
If you like the word "Suck".......2007-01-18
Then this book is for you. A professional writer, Queenan can't find a stronger word than "suck" for everything he dislikes? That sucks.
Although Queenan occasionally puts together a real humdinger of a doozy of a quip, for the most part, his course in suckiness consists of holding himself superior to the lowbrow population that determines so much of American culture. Throughout the book there seems to run an undertone of bitterness that Queenan himself hasn't become the household name that Billy Joel, the Eagles, Cats, or even James Michener has. And because he holds these in such contempt, Queenan reveals himself to be worse than those people who visit Branson, eat at Red Lobster, and read Jackie Collins novels. While those people enjoy their lives and probably don't mind if Queenan enjoys his effete, psuedo-intellectual existence, there is one main difference. The former group is willing to let Queenan join in their experiences, welcoming him to enjoy their pleasures. But my guess is that if the tables were turned and some of the great unwashed were to try to take part in Queenan's haughty society, there would be nothing but rejection and scorn. I pity a man who cannot enjoy a variety of levels of entertainment. His world is far poorer than mine. I can relax to "Peaceful, Easy Feeling" or "Piano Man" one evening, and still watch or read "King Lear" the following evening with equal pleasure. Not so the superior Queenan. Sad.
There Is No Cure for the Common Scold.......2006-09-02
Queenan set an extremely peculiar task for himself in writing this book: he would spend a year reading books, watching movies, and listening to music that he desperately wanted NOT to read, watch, or hear. Masochism on this scale is rare even in the back rooms of adult bookstores.
Although Queenan is a good writer and actualy made me laugh out loud a couple of times, there are two fatal flaws that doom the project.
He's certainly not the first to tackle the subject mattter. Early in the 20th century H. L. Menken made the statement that "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American middle class," and used the term "booboise" to describe this group. Then in 1964 Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp" came on the scene.
Worse yet, he confuses fact and opinion. He uses the terms "good" and "bad" in describing popular culture, terms that are more properly used in the realm of morality.
Billy Joel and Phil Collins are singers. That is a fact. Billy Joel and Phil Collins are bad singers. That is an opinion. Queenan's, not mine.
His targets are so easy. Michael Bolton, THE CELESTINE PROPHECY, the musical CATS, Kenny G., Joan Collins, Joe Pesci, Renaissance Fairs, Molly Ringwald, CANNONBALL RUN 2.
Along the way he finds some things that he enjoys more than he expected to. Sizzler Restaurants, CHILD'S PLAY, and Barry Manilow are unexpected sources of pleasure to him.
Although I'm often in agreement with Queenan's opinions, there's no real need for him to express them. What is admired in the arts is very much a product of the time in which the art is produced. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who opened his novel PAUL CLIFFORD with the immortal phrase, "It was a dark and stormy night," was highly admired in the 19th century; today his name is on a prize given by San Jose State University for authors who deliberately produce the worst writing they can for the competition.
Queenan sets himself as the authority, oops, make that The Authority, the supreme arbiter of taste. This could be fun in a magazine article; at 194 pages he wears out his welcome.
As I read, I finally remembered where I had heard this particular cricket perched on my shoulder. The 1960's. A Houston station would broadcast a double feature of 1950's horror movies. My mother would sit up and offer a running commentary on the acting, writing and directing of these movies (she taught Drama at the college level so they may have really grated on her). I ignored her and kept on watching. Finally, around midnight she'd weary of this and go to bed. I could get another bottle of Coke and more Doritos and watch the second feature in peace.
If the publishers really wanted to have fun, they should go to a NASCAR Race or Untimate Fighting Championship and find a good old boy with his gimme cap on backward. Pay him to watch Bergman films (Ingmar, not Ingrid), listen to string quartets and read Umberto Eco for a year. That could be fun.
One of the funniest books I have ever read.......2006-03-26
This book actually had me laughing out loud, many, many times. Queenan defines his talent as worthy of national attention with this book.
Many of the reviews comment that he "hates American culture". If you truly believe that, you are a simpleton. To riducule someone for pointing our cultural detritus in an age of constant commercialism in both music and film is actually kind of scary. Is this what angers the average person? Making fun of Billy Joel or Red Lobster?
Do you know what bothers me about this sentiment? That people would get this worked up about someone's opinion of fast food. Not the fact that Americans read on a sixth grade level, or that more people vote for American Idol than the mid-term elections. Thats ok, just don't mess with Billy Joel and his weird goombah suits or greasy, lukewarm seafood.
I wonder how many of the readers saw themselves at the Captain's Table with the Captain's hat on? Its not so funny when the family truckster's favorite Caribbean dock is Red Lobster. Let me get rid of these sea legs and saddle up to the table, and engorge myself with 8,000 calories of flour and grease labeled "shrimp". Argh.
Maybe I should just keep quiet, I mean, this isn't some stupid Wendy's.
Ahoy idiots, your time has come.
Joe, keep writing.
Just terrible.......2005-08-04
I bought this book thinking that it would be a witty critique of low brow American culture. Well, it wasn't witty and it wasn't a critique. It was a worthless tirade from a bitter, effete, ineffectual snob. Perhaps if Queenan was capable of producing something meaningful, he wouldn't feel compelled to be so cruel.
Customer Reviews:
Southern Cooking as I know it and a little bit I didn't know........2007-08-16
Wonderfully funny and good recipes,too. I have both White Trash cookbooks and will not trade them or lend them to anyone. I just buy them one.
Not just a cookbook -- a sociological foray.......2002-07-05
Just as in the original "White Trash Cooking", there are recipes here, but more of an emphasis on cooking for groups. The various situations that call for group food are presented -- quilting bees, funerals, reunions, obligatory holidays. Each chapter is prefaced by a short story illustrating the heart of white trash. The photos are truly astounding, and as in the first book, a big part of the book's appeal. These people don't ever apologize for being white-trash -- they're simple, unvarnished, and neighborly. So is their food.
The recipes are even more outrageously white-trashy than in the first book -- while there are several recipes I tried from the first, there aren't as many that I'd call accessible in this one. I also find dialect-writing difficult to follow. Still, the last chapter is truly touching: An eloquent plea for people to cook with their own hands, instead of relying on store-bought "mummafied" food. Well said!
What A GREAT Cookbook.......2002-05-19
I have both White Trash Cookin' Books and have given them as gifts. The stories as well as the recipes will have you in stitches. The recipes are good eats too. Highly recommend this book.
Do it again........2001-12-17
If you've seen #1, then this is more of the same. The stories are so good, you'll laugh out loud. The photographs are also great, though I prefer those in #1 by a smidgeon. Oh, yea, there are recipes in this one too. I like the ones that say, "you can mess with this and it will turn out fine." I'm not much of a cook, though my husband is.
No trailer required.......2000-06-21
They aren't kidding when they say white trash. It's a beautiful thing! It's tacky, tacky, tacky and a pure joy. the stuff under "sinkin' spells" has a special fondness in my heart. These are recipes you will return to. You have two choices with this book. Either show it to people and have a good laugh or keep it hidden away and never tell a soul. You can't do anything half way with this book.
Book Description
White Trash Etiquette contains everything you need to know to live like decent trash, including:
• The proper way to fake a back injury
• How to prevent your in-laws from stealing the silverware at wedding receptions
• The Ten Hottest White Trash Career Opportunities
• How to improve your drunk-driving skills
• Sound advice on everything from lying to your boss to making your next convenience-store robbery fun for the whole family
There’s also troubleshooting for troublemakers:
• I'm getting married; can I still wear white if I'm a tramp?
• Can chicks ever really respect an accountant?
• How do I pick a good bail bondsman?
• How can I get my 14-year-old cousin unpregnant?
And much more.
Customer Reviews:
Dat's sum reel good infurmashun!.......2007-09-07
Got dis hear fur my paw an his comun law wyfe. Dey said dey lurned em sum impotent stuff n how ta get along with all them uther folks in day trayler park. Day got more frends din evur beefor. thankin yall fur sellin me dis an my paw thanks ya too. sory fur the spelin. my cumpooter is kinna old. bye fur now, gott ta go wach restlin.
Blue Collar Comedy.......2007-02-08
This book was really funny and a good relaxing read. Especially if you like the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
Sophomoric and Painful.......2006-12-24
I had high hopes for this book. They were dashed. It's mostly a series of "tests" to determine what to do and "letters" about surreally unbelievable situations. For this book, "white trash" implies that burglary is the preferred career, everybody has four or more husbands/wives over time and innumerable dalliances beyond, and any carnal urge results in children who must be taught how to burgle.
It's just not funny, and has nothing in common with Jeff Foxworthy or David Barry writing about similar topics.
A very, very funny read.......2006-06-23
A co-worker of mine strongly recommended "White Trash Etiquette" on a recent business trip, and was kind enough to let me borrow his copy. I read it cover-to-cover in my hotel room, and spent a good chunk of time chuckling at Dr. Verne's musings on life. This is a very, very funny book. It's quite original -- I've seen nothing like it. Dr. Verne shares his wisdom on all sorts of funny issues ranging from scams to sports to love. Dr. Verne's take on life is downright hilarious. This is a great book for a cover-to-cover read, or for someone who just has bits of time and wants to have a quick laugh. This book will definitely put a smile on your face.
Better that getting your car stereo stoled.......2006-06-21
How do?
The name's Dr. Verne Edstrom, Esq. -- literary giant, petty thief, and self-help advisor to the stars. This here's my book.
I wrote it to help all yous trash out there. Say you got an important question, like how to make your fourteen-year-old cousin unpregnant, or who you should kidnap if you're aiming to impress a woman. You think you're gonna ask Dr. Laura about that? Her face would explode and her makeup would catch fire. Pretty soon you burned down eleven states, but you still don't know who you're supposed to abduct.
Me, I was figuring to help folks rise up from under the viaduct so's they could do better robberies, get themselves more marriages, and start living the life of luxury in a nice doublewide where the heat always works and the cupboards is always filled with liquor and ammo.
And if you ain't buying that explanation, here's a better one: I got eight or ten kids. Seeing as how the missus is built like an ore boat, the smart money says she's good for a half-dozen more. So if you don't buy my book, I don't get no money, which means eight to ten kids is gonna be loose on the streets, stealing your car stereo.
And any moron knows a book is cheaper than a car stereo. That's just good financial thinking.
Dr. Verne Edstrom, Esq.
Cleveland, America
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This collection of essays suffers somewhat from occasional appearances in its pages of the plodding and pretentious prose of academia, but despite that fault, these essays on poor white Americans are, in general, quite interesting. To be honest, when the scholars trip over their jargon while explaining why Bubba and Jolene constitute a "debased other," it can be more fun than a free Pabst beer at the monster truck pull. Some essays stand out. Writer Michael Berube's memoir of life in a 1950s trailer park in Bayonne, New Jersey, is well-written and touching; and University of Southern California film professor Constance Penley's disquisition on white trash pornography, entitled "Crackers and Whackers" is bound to raise eyebrows. And Gael Sweeney provides the fitting finale, an essay entitled "The King of White Trash Culture: Elvis Presley and the Aesthetics of Excess."
Book Description
This collection is devoted to exploring stereotypes about the social conditions of poor whites in the United States and comparing these stereotypes with the social reality.
Customer Reviews:
Academic stuffiness (yawn).......2001-08-25
Skip "White Trash : Race and Class in America". It's pretentious and obviously written by authors who've never done a hard day's manual labor, let alone been to a Monster Truck rally. Amazon offers Jim Goad's "Redneck Manifesto" - a much smarter and grittier look at America's white working class (written from someone who's been there).
Ha, ha, ha.......1998-08-29
You would think that the term "White Trash" was just invented when it's been around for years and years. This book was pretty darn good! As a former southern non-belle let me say my piece. I was accused of being WT mainly because I lived at the end of a dirt road and my grandparents lived on a "hill"(billy). (We weren't rednecks though. Rednecks were the racist types, we said). We were just plain poor and lived up from a community of blacks who lived in shacks on stilts on the river. Going to high school I could see the snarl on the faces of the city kids who quickly judged you by where you lived (dirt road) and what your father did for a living (peon job at Olin). I used to think my cousins where more WT than I. Now who has the last laugh -- my kinfolk have all that land that the Martha Stewart types covet and will pay through the teeth for it, and do now that the land value there has risen by almost 90 percent. (Go away yankees). Granted, nowadays I smirk at the WT crowd on the afternoon talk shows but I could've been there. It really is a class issue and maybe they're happy eating Spam and listening to Elvis and shopping at Wal-Mart. At least they're somewhat content and not miserable like some rich Malibu people I know.
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- Uncovered Plebian Class
- A wonderful piece of off beat fiction
- Leaves you wanting more
- Synopisis
- Undercover White [Garbage]
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Undercover White Trash
David L. Kilpatrick
Manufacturer: 1st Books Library
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Book Description
A snobbish ad man has blown a huge advertising campaign for a chain of consumer warehouse stores. Punished by his boss, he is sent undercover to study the target consumer group: trailer trash. Politically incorrect and hilarious.
Customer Reviews:
Uncovered Plebian Class.......2006-12-18
Though the actual title is much more titillating, this little book would have more precisely been pegged Undercover Redneck. For the only thing truly trashy about it is a few characters who are garbage collectors. How many readers-to-be ordered this pulpy-sounding piece expecting a waller in squalor amidst the great unwashed? Many, most likely--only to find themselves immersed in the delightful tale of a yuppie-type ad exec who embarks on a slumming mission and discovers the down-home world of the everyday working class. From pro wresting programs and martial arts movies to hillbilly bars and mosh pits, this upscale Everyman stares his blue-collar counterpart in the face and, in the way of all novels, emerges forever changed. How and to what degree is the provocative plotline of this 128 page, easy to peruse volume. The punctuation could be more proper, but--hey--we aint talkin' penthouse here!
A wonderful piece of off beat fiction.......2005-06-01
BMWs, fine wines and white collars are the lynchpins of Edward Prescott's life until an account with BillyMart forces him to research how the other half lives.
Mr. Kilpatrick's foray into the underbelly of white society is on one level satirical but also an endearing interpretation of life in the trailer community. Characters that at times smell of being caricatures are fleshed out in the novel. I greatly enjoyed each page of this novel, and by the way, it has a great sense of humor as well.
Leaves you wanting more.......2003-12-29
Book is fresh, well written and leaves the reader wanting more.
While reading it one easily pictures this as a movie starring Steve Martin.
Quick paced the reader is immediately absorbed into the vignette. Let's hope to see more books by author.
Synopisis.......2003-01-30
Here's the synopsis from www.amazon.com.uk - where the book is also cheaper...(though shipping, of course, would cost more. I tend to order from both the UK & USA sites, exploiting price differences; I also read reviews from both before purchasing, since they seem to have different reviews).
Strange that the US site doesn't have a description of the book's contents ...
A snobbish ad man has blown a huge advertising campaign for a chain of consumer warehouse stores. Punished by his boss, he is sent undercover to study the target consumer group: ... Politically incorrect and hilarious.
Undercover White [Garbage].......2002-04-25
An uproariously funny book. I can picture the actors for each part when it becomes a movie someday. This book reaches the funny bones of both the "snobs" in the world and the "rednecks" too.
Well-written, well-researched and thoroughly enjoyable! I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys tongue-in-cheek humor and outright obvious stabs at others' lifestyles.
Product Description
Filled with all the recipes for the tasty vittles served up by folks in the backwoods, bayous, hills, and sticks of America, The Treasure of White Trash Cooking will whisk you into the farthest reaches of the Deep South and satisfy your hankerin' for its finest fare.
Book Description
White trash. The phrase conjures up images of dirty rural folk who are poor, ignorant, violent, and incestuous. But where did this stigmatizing phrase come from? And why do these stereotypes persist? Matt Wray answers these and other questions by delving into the long history behind this term of abuse and others like it. Ranging from the early 1700s to the early 1900s, Not Quite White documents the origins and transformations of the multiple meanings projected onto poor rural whites in the United States. Wray draws on a wide variety of primary sourcesâliterary texts, folklore, diaries and journals, medical and scientific articles, social scientific analysesâto construct a dense archive of changing collective representations of poor whites.
Of crucial importance are the ideas about poor whites that circulated through early-twentieth-century public health campaigns, such as hookworm eradication and eugenic reforms. In these crusades, impoverished whites, particularly but not exclusively in the American South, were targeted for interventions by sanitarians who viewed them as âfilthy, lazy crackersâ in need of racial uplift and by eugenicists who viewed them as a âfeebleminded menaceâ to the white race, threats that needed to be confined and involuntarily sterilized.
Part historical inquiry and part sociological investigation, Not Quite White demonstrates the power of social categories and boundaries to shape social relationships and institutions, to invent groups where none exist, and to influence policies and legislation that end up harming the very people they aim to help. It illuminates not only the cultural significance and consequences of poor white stereotypes but also how dominant whites exploited and expanded these stereotypes to bolster and defend their own fragile claims to whiteness.
Customer Reviews:
concise, powerful, eloquent - should be required reading.......2006-12-30
Matt Wray has put together an extremely powerful treatise on the cultural construction of poor whites in the U.S. With wonderful historical detail and depth, he has shown how poor whites have come to be perceived over three centuries, and in various regions of the United States. Wray's book is theoretically sophisticated in a direct, eloquent, and very "alive" way. As a result, it should appeal to a wide variety of academic and non-academic audiences.
For students of race and class in America, this really should be required reading. More than an historical text, this book is also deeply anthropological, psychological, and sociological. Extremely well empirically substantiated, it also sits right on the cutting edge of social theory.
Book Description
With a respectful nod to Ernie Mickler's original WHITE TRASH COOKING, Kendra Bailey Morris pulls open the back door of her Granny Boohler's kitchen to chronicle the next generation of cookin' and socializin' the Southern white trash way. Bubbling over with treasured family recipes, entertaining ideas, and crafty décor suggestions, WHITE TRASH GATHERINGS has the perfect dish for every occasion, whether it's potlucking, just havin' `em ovah, headin' home for the holidays, or creating a holy gatherin' from scratch. Next time the kin sets down to Sunday supper, serve it West Virginia style, and make sure there's plenty, `cause when Maw Maw and Paw Paw come from down `round Possum Hollow, they'll be expecting to leave with a belly-full.
Customer Reviews:
This book brings back memories.......2006-12-28
As a southern girl living in California, this cookbook included some recipes I never expected to ever see in print. From family reunions to Fellowship Dinner at my grandmother's little Southern Baptist church, the book and the stories warmed my heart... or is that heartburn?
Whether you're a Southerner or just enjoy some unpretentious time in the kitchen, this book is a gem.
Great recipes, heart-felt stories.......2006-10-22
The title might lead your expectations down a different road, but this book is truly a gem for cooks and non-cooks alike. It's a cookbook with recipes, yes, but what makes it special is the family stories that surround the creation and consumption of each. Morris' conversational tone paints vivid images of a tight-knit family and how integral food is in expressing their love for one another and their roots.
Beyond the stories are recipes that are easy to make, fun to create and delicious to eat. You haven't lived until you've tried Maw Maw's West Virginia Funeral Cake. Dee-lish.
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